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Friday, 16 June 2017

COLOMBIA ASKED THE UN FOR THE SECOND POLITICAL MISSION.

COLOMBIA ASKED THE UN FOR THE SECOND
POLITICAL MISSION.

More than 7,000 guerrillas and
2,000 militiamen are in transit to civilian life and expect guarantees of
reincorporation in the political, economic and social. Jaime Perez Munévar Olga
Patricia Rendón Marulanda Although the Agreement between the Government and the
FARC establishes that the Political Mission of the UN for the verification of
the reincorporation of the guerrillas would begin their actions after the
verification of the cease-fire and the abandonment of arms, President Juan
Manuel Santos requested Advance its mandate.

In a letter sent to the UN
Secretary-General and the Security Council, the president said: "The
National Government and the FARC have agreed to ask the United Nations to
anticipate the implementation of the second special political mission."

This second mission will be in
charge, as established, to verify the process of political, economic and social
reincorporation of the FARC and the implementation of measures of protection
and personal and collective security and of the integral programs of security
and protection for the communities and organizations in the territories. The UN
Security Council has not yet pronounced on the request of the Colombian
Government, although it could do so next June 23 when it will receive a report
from the current Mission.

As the Agreement has developed,
it is possible that the request will be accepted given the good terms in which
the Security Council visited the country to get a closer look at the
implementation of the Peace Agreement, and because statements by Jean Arnault,
Head of the Mission, have always been positive regarding the importance of the
reincorporation of the guerrillas. He said, for example, in La Elvira (Buenos
Aires -Cauca) that "Farc's march to civilian life and unarmed politics is
arguably the best symbol of this process."

However, Luis Fernando Vargas
Alzate, professor of International Relations at Eafit, explained that this
request is the ratification that the implementation of the Agreement is
working, and that the new mission involves new challenges.

First, it would be a political
mission, which means that the perspective begins to distance itself from the
military. It will be necessary people with other types of training that can
attend this second stage of verification. Second, it would be a more technical
mission, added the teacher, but in the economic and social aspects, the UN,
with all its agencies, has much more experience, so it will not be a process so
unknown to them.

Also, Vargas suggested, would be a
bigger mission, not only because the guerrillas will no longer be concentrated
in areas of normalization and reincorporation will take place throughout the
national territory, but because it would have a first term of three years,
which implies including more Observers to cover the breaks, as with all
long-term missions.

It is precisely for Mauricio
Jaramillo Jassir, an internationalist at the University of Rosario, that he
shows "the desire to strengthen international participation in the peace
process," because the verification of the UN Mission in Colombia has given
legitimacy to the world. Necessary to consolidate and acclimatise a climate of
reconciliation.

The analysts consulted by EL-COLOMBIANO agreed that it is difficult to find an example of a mission similar
to the one Colombia asked the UN, because it is usually about military
peacekeeping missions. At present, these operations are multidimensional, as
they also facilitate political processes, protect civilians, assist in the
process of disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating ex-combatants.